Real geniuses would like that what we think of ourselves is true.

We’re very familiar with the idea that some things are so complex they’re beyond our comprehension. This not only keeps us solving and experimenting but also distracted. Many things are really so simple we can’t...

There’s a difference between thinking you can’t be wrong and having no regrets. Wrongness is what occurs prior to empiricism, in hindsight a counterpart of revelation, and revelation is nothing to regret.

Until that moment she had not really noticed him. Now she felt as though she’d stubbed her toe on a rock, and looked down to find that it was part of a buried city.

Was he a great genius? Was he an eccentric? Was he someone who was trying to raise his consciousness in a way people can’t even imagine? He was on his own path and everybody gets...

Genius and science have burst the limits of space, and few observations, explained by just reasoning, have unveiled the mechanism of the universe. Would it not also be glorious for man to burst the limits...

Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.

A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.

To know one’s self is wisdom, but not to know one’s neighbors is genius.

I think ‘Pan’s Labyrinth’ is genius.

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

Clever man is a chicken; it can fly, but a little. Genius, on the other hand, is a migratory bird; it can fly at high altitudes until He disappears on the horizon!

If beauty isn’t genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning.

The only guaranteed way to be a genius is to surround yourself with idiots.

If woman were brought into the field to fight political battles with men, why what would she be then? Instead of being man’s superior, as she is at the present time, she would be man’s...

Genius is play, and man’s capacity for achieving genius is infinite, and many may achieve genius only through play.

Incredibly intelligent people always seem odd to those who are not as sharp.

When we allow the genius of simple nature to flow through us we become every genius who has ever lived.

Genius could be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way, or even to say a simple thing in a simpler way.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.

When your efforts run in the face of conventional wisdom and accepted mastery, persistence can look like madness. If you succeed in the end, this extreme originality reformulates into a new level of mastery, sometimes...

The role of genius is not to complicate the simple, but to simplify the complicated.

I wish I could play up my sexual awkwardness as autism, and insinuate myself into the realm of genius. But I’m not a genius. I’m merely a humble sex god and virtual love machine.

Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment.

Étant la plus saisissante manifestation de l’art des constructions métalliques par lesquelles nos ingénieurs se sont illustrés en Europe, elle est une des formes les plus frappantes de notre génie national moderne.Being the most striking...

Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.

To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it’s true. It’s a new world every heart beat.

Whenever I meet in Laplace with the words ‘Thus it plainly appears’, I am sure that hours and perhaps days, of hard study will alone enable me to discover how it plainly appears.

Talent may be in time forgiven, but genius never

A possible link between ‘madness’ and genius is one of the oldest and most persistent of cultural notions.

We’re all geniuses. Life is merely overpopulated with singers who play drums, and, drummers who sing, to pay rent.

People are always asking that a person should be perfect. Wayne is a genius as a player – he has everything – and he also has a temperament. But you can’t ask people to be...

If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel Prize.

There is a saying: Genius is perseverance. While genius does not consist entirely of editing, without editing it’s pretty useless.

Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

Yes, it made sense, and was so absurdly simple that it would take a genius to think of it. And, perhaps, someone who did not expect to do it himself.

* If you can be kind to people, you will be a genius in this world.

Music resembles poetry, in eachAre nameless graces which no methods teach,And which a master hand alone can reach.

this was business.

I really cannot know whether I am or am not the Genius you are pleased to call me, but I am very willing to put up with the mistake, if it be one.

Find out what people want to do, then tell them to do it. They’ll think you’re a genius.

One Jarod’s a lover, and one Jarod’s a fighter. Which Jarod am I? The middle one.

The iambic pentameter owes its pre-eminence in English poetry to its genius for variation. Good blank verse does not sound like a series of identically measured lines. It sounds like a series of subtle variations...

It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.

California weather is worth all the geniuses in New York.

Developing your unique thought to the level of being appreciated and adopted by the world – that’s genius.

The team must consist of three sorts of specialists, he says. Otherwise the revolution, whether in politics or the arts or the sciences or whatever, is sure to fail.The rarest of these specialists, he says,...

Girls did that then – knocked themselves out to support some man’s notion of his own genius. What was Gavin doing to help pay the rent? Not much, though she suspected him of dealing pot...

The twin aspects of genius, the passive and the active, are possessed by the fully realized artist; they also form the necessary equipment of the Adept. Yet in very few people are these twin aspects...

Never underestimate spite as a motivator for genius.